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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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The heart of a man is like deep water
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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